Up and down the City Road, In and out the Eagle,Thats the way the money goes Pop goes the weasel! Popular street song in England in the late Fifties, sung at the Grecian Theatre. Attributed to W. R. Mandale.

I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves. ChesterfieldLetters. Nov. 6, 1747; also Feb. 5, 1750. Quoting Lowndes.

As I sat at the Café I said to myself,They may talk as they please about what they call pelf,They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking,But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money! Arthur Hugh CloughSpectator Ab Extra.

Money was made, not to command our will,But all our lawful pleasures to fulfil.Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey;The horse doth with the horseman run away. Abraham CowleyImitations. Tenth Epistle of Horace. Bk. I. L. 75.

How widely its agencies vary,To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,As even its minted coins express,Now stampd with the image of good Queen Bess, And now of a Bloody Mary. HoodMiss Kilmansegg. Her Moral.

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages. Washington IrvingCreole Village. In Wolferts Roost. Appeared in Knickerbocker Mag. Nov., 1836.

Dollar Diplomacy. Term applied to Secretary Knoxs activities in securing opportunities for the investment of American capital abroad, particularly in Latin America and China; also in Honduras and Liberia. Defended by President Taft, Message to Congress, Dec. 3, 1912. Huntington Wilson aided Knox in framing the Policy. See Harpers Weekly, April 23, 1910. P. 8.

Why, give him gold enough and marry him to a puppet or an aglet-baby or an old trot with neer a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as two-and-fifty horses; why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.Taming of the Shrew. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 78.

A fool and his money be soon at debate. TusserGood Husbandry. A fool and his money are soon parted. George Buchanan, tutor to James VI. of Scotland, to a courtier after winning a bet as to which could make the coarser verse. See WalshHandy Book of Literary Curiosities.